The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... justice , but of satiating avarice . A mercenary magistrate who is rewarded in pro- portion , not to his integrity , but to the number he convicts , must be a person of the most unblemished character , or he will lean on the side of ...
... justice , but of satiating avarice . A mercenary magistrate who is rewarded in pro- portion , not to his integrity , but to the number he convicts , must be a person of the most unblemished character , or he will lean on the side of ...
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... justice be intrusted , but to those who know how to reward as well as to punish . It was a fine saying of Nangfu the emperor , who being told that his ene- mies had raised an insurrection in one of the distant provinces ; come then , my ...
... justice be intrusted , but to those who know how to reward as well as to punish . It was a fine saying of Nangfu the emperor , who being told that his ene- mies had raised an insurrection in one of the distant provinces ; come then , my ...
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... justice of heaven , and ask mercy from him that made him ; If God , replies he , has shown me no justice here , what rea- son have I to expect any from him hereafter ? But being answered , that a suspension of justice was no argument ...
... justice of heaven , and ask mercy from him that made him ; If God , replies he , has shown me no justice here , what rea- son have I to expect any from him hereafter ? But being answered , that a suspension of justice was no argument ...
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... justice into a rat trap . Even philosophers themselves are not exempt from its influence ; it has often con- verted a poet into a coral and bells , and a patriot sena- tor into a dumb waiter . Some days ago I went to visit the man in ...
... justice into a rat trap . Even philosophers themselves are not exempt from its influence ; it has often con- verted a poet into a coral and bells , and a patriot sena- tor into a dumb waiter . Some days ago I went to visit the man in ...
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... justice to the author , but to im- press others with an opinion of our superior discern- ment . But let works of this kind , which have already come off with such applause , enjoy it all . It is neither my wish to diminish , as I was ...
... justice to the author , but to im- press others with an opinion of our superior discern- ment . But let works of this kind , which have already come off with such applause , enjoy it all . It is neither my wish to diminish , as I was ...
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